president been criminally indicted. as we know, he s facing 91 criminal accounts across four cases and waving around his presidency like a get out of jail free card. yesterday, a federal appeal s court, rejected trump s immunity claim in the e. jean defamation suit. in georgia, trump has claimed presidential immunity there too. his lawyers filed a motion to throw out the charges he faces in the racketeering case say the acts in question lie at the heart of his official responsibilities as president, end quote. hugely consequential questions about the presidency and our nation s rule of law put to the test by the ex-president. that s where we start this hour with the former assistant united states attorney and nycb legal analyst, glenn kirschner who was inside the court thousands today. also joining us, new york times washington correspondent glen thrush, and the former
across the country and he did. he delivered on that. this article implies, the new york times article implies that it s less about the transaction now. there s something else. it s morphed into a different kind of relationship. what s your sense of that? yeah, i mean, in many ways, that s sort of the unifying theme of the book that i ve written which is to say that for lks who feel like the end is near and that the barbarians are at the gates and their time of persecution which has been told for generations and finally it is here, that this is the moment where the forces of good and evil are colliding, you become less concerned with finding allies who are good. you just become concerned with finding allies who will fight against that perceived evil. what s interesting is that many of trump s most fervent evangelical supporters, they
the arguments made by the special counsel in the case wasn t appointed properly is not one that the trump folks have shared or made themselves. so if they really think, for example, that former president biden is pulling the strings, why are they not contesting the appointment of jack smith or not saying something to that effect in their legal arguments. that having been said, i agree with andrew, that james pierce really had a nice response to that. the other thing is, you can t allow trump s threats to become the court s predictions of what the future looks like at large in a world that trump is no longer president in. in other words, the things he s saying he would do if he becomes president, again, can t be allowed to dictate what the rule of law is. andrew, back to the process just for a second. when will we know about this and what happens next? is it clear that whatever happens when goes to the supreme
eight years ago, ted cruz, he was doing six, seven, eight events a day. donald trump is not here. and the trials he s taking part in are an excuse so far. he chose to show up in a d.c. courtroom today and on thursday he s choosing to appear in that new york civil fraud trial for his closing arguments. but tomorrow night, it s not a public event that he s taking part in. it s a fox news town hall. that s it until this weekend. i m told that kari lake is on her way now to the state of iowa to campaign on his behalf. and i also just learned that don jr. is holding an event standing in for his father here on thursday. so a week before the iowa caucus, it s a little abnormal. but donald trump is abnormal and his lead over his other republican rivals is also abnormal. marjorie taylor greene interestingly enough is somebody who is supporting not interesting that she s supporting him, but in terms of the iowa voter, they re leaning fully into the trump, trumpism